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ZPG, parent company of Zoopla, is to buy another comparison website business, in addition to running its existing Uswitch service. Insurance group...

GetAgent, the comparison estate agency business, has secured £2.2m in investment from a consortium of investors including Channel 4. The backers are...

Property industry commentator and former online agency chief executive Russell Quirk has defended Rightmove’s charges to agents, saying that compared to...

Given that online property portals, dominated by a handful of websites, are by far the most popular home search method, it...

A property comparison website has made a defence of the controversial Help To Buy initiative, claiming it “acts as an important...

As the process of making buying and selling more transparent continues to gather pace, the body that regulates conveyancers says it...

ZPG has revealed that it had 58m visits to its property websites, Zoopla and Primelocation, last month. This is 10 per cent up...

ZPG is refusing to increase its rejected bid to buy comparison website GoCompare. Earlier this month GoCompare turned down an unsolicited takeover offer...

News agency Reuters says a top five shareholder in price comparison service GoCompare says the firm should respond “positively” if ZPG...

People are more likely to give word-of-mouth recommendations for handyman services than recommend estate agents, according to a controversial poll. The survey...

A new website that will allow vendors and landlords to compare the expertise and fees of estate and letting agents has banned online...

It’s easy to forget, but there was a time when the internet didn’t exist. When the idea behind the world wide...

A west country property developer is reported to have taken “a significant stake” in Netanagent, a price comparison website focused on...

Zoopla Property Group is looking for more potential acquisitions following its surprise announcement that it is buying price comparison website uSwitch. ZPG...